Exam 21: The Twenties

The presidential candidacy of Al Smith was possible because of

The incident that sparked the Chicago race riots of 1919 demonstrated that

How did the marketing of Listerine during the 1920s reflect the role of advertising in a consumer-oriented economy?

Why is "Black Tuesday" considered the starting point of the Great Depression?

Ohio high school teacher John Scopes was put on trial for giving a lecture on the theories of

Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's belief in "trickle down" economics was a result of his

The fact that, by 1929, Americans bought 60 percent of their cars and 80 percent of radios on the installment plan was evidence that

The National Origins Act was designed to

As a consequence of the influenza epidemic,

Roughly how many Americans worked in industries related to automobile production in 1929?

Which of the following consumer goods had a transformative impact on day-to-day life in the United States during the 1920s?

African American culture in the 1920s, from poetry to the blues, was notable for

What was the movement of thousands of African Americans from the South to the North and West in search of better jobs and better treatment during World War I called?

What can we conclude from the map of the election of 1924 (Map 21.2)?

Which of the following challenged the homogeneity of mass consumer culture?

In 1920, according to the U.S. Census, the majority of Americans lived

In the 1920s, advertisers increasingly focused their attention on the

The passage of the National Origins Act in 1924 inspired nativist reformers to

In his article "The Case against the Reds" in Forum magazine in 1920 (Document 21.1), Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer declared that "[r]obbery, not war, is the ideal of communism. This has been demonstrated in Russia, Germany, and in America." What was Palmer comparing communism to?

Despite their differences, Langston Hughes and Marcus Garvey agreed that